PORTOBELLO ROAD MARKET
Fruit and vegetable, bread, cheese, flowers, clothes by young designers, vintage clothes, artwork, flea market, antique dealers, vintage fashion and retro memorabilia, food market … just everything you expect (email hidden)ly market! Fridays and Saturdays are the main days. Sunday offering a small market around Portobello Green under the Westway bridge. Fruit and vegetable market on several days of the week.
Also check out Golborne Road Market at the northern end of Portobello Road for less touristy food markets and antique stands during the whole week (except Sunday).

FAMOUS SIGHTS
A must for all music lovers: Sarm Studios on 8-10 Basing Street (former known as Basing Street Studios or Island Studios), Some of the all time greatest recorded here: Bob Marley who lived in Notting Hill in the 70s, Led Zeppelin, Queen and The Rolling Stones.
If you want to visit the place where Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, go to 22 Landsdowne Crescent where the Samarkand Hotel used to be.

RESTAURANTS
There a number of great Italian restaurants on Kensington park Rd.
Portuguese and Moroccan food and drinks (great coffee and sweets) are on Golborne Road. Also recently opened there is Pizza East restaurant for the more trendy crowd.
Jamie Oliver just opened up his new Recipease restaurant in Notting Hill Gate where you can pop in and do a cooking class.
Electric Brasserie on Portobello Road is very popular with the locals and trendy visitors alike.
E&O restaurant and bar for Asian fusion food, cocktails and a favourite with the rich and beautiful.
For celebrity watching Julie's (“A magnet for over 40 years from the hippie generation and now to the ultra-cool London set. Julie’s has been referred to as the rock chick of the restaurant world.”).
The Ledbury if you have fancy some Michelin Star food. "Ottolenghi" (63 Ledbury Road)
Nicole Fahri for great breakfast, coffee and clothes (202 Westbourne Grove).

FITNESS
Portobello Green Fitness club, local no-nonsense gym for workout, classes, Yoga and day passes available!
Try the London Bike (from £1/TFL website/cycling) – docking stations are everywhere in the city, the closest is just 7min away from the flat (Chepstow Villas between Portobello Rd and Kensington Park Rd).

PARKS
Hyde Park (25min walking)
Holland Park (20min walking)

CINEMAS
The Electric on Portobello Rd, The Gate and The Coronet (both at Notting Hill Gate)
Whiteleys Odeon cinemas and Vue cinemas in Westfield Shopping Mall.

Taxis:
Notting Hill Regal Cars
Approx fares from the house to Heathrow Airport £25 with local taxi service (it's around £55 the other way with a "black cab"), Gatwick Airport £50, Victoria Station (for Gatwick Express) £15, Paddington Station (for Heathrow Express) £8

To/From Airports:
Gatwick:
Take Gatwick Express (faster) or Southern Train (cheaper) to London Victoria (book online for cheaper fairs).
Take taxi (£20) or bus route 52 to Ladbroke Grove Station (approx. 30min). Alternative: London Tube/ Circle Line from Victoria station to Notting Hill Gate, then bus 52 to Ladbroke Grove or walking (15min).

Heathrow:
Time vs Money! Cheapest way to get to Heathrow T1-5 is by tube. Ladbroke Grove Station - Hammersmith&City Line or Circle Line to Hammersmith, then cross over to Piccadilly Line to Heathrow.
(approx. 1hour). Fastest way is with taxi to Paddington Station and Heathrow Express to Heathrow (15min, every 15min). If you are two people or more it's actually cheaper to take a taxi all the way to Heathrow £25 with local taxi service (it's around £55 the other way with a "black cab"),

Stansted:
Take the Stansted Express (website hidden) to Liverpool Street Station and from there the Tube (Circle or Hammersmith&City Line) to Ladbroke Grove. Will take around 50min for the train and 30-40 min for the tube.

כללי הבית

1. Absolutely NO SMOKING inside the flat and avoid late night noise.

2. Open fire such as candles are NOT ALLOWED for health and safety reasons.

3. Only paid guests are allowed in the flat.

4. Switch off all electrical equipment after you use it

5. Do not force anything, if you are not sure how to use certain equipment such as washing machine for example, just ask me, I'm happy to help.

6. Take off shoes inside the Bedroom. Thanks

- Surcharge of £ 20 for check-out after 10am
- No Smoking
- No Parties

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Large bedroom in a nice terrace house. Clean, no traffic noise and quiet « neighbours ».
Comfortable bed.
Heating on.
Shared bathroom but respectful use. Thanks for lending bath towels.
TV set but programs are globally, as quickly seen, the same foolish one’s as in France ! Advantage : english speaking :-)
Friendly welcome by Mark.
Well located regarding public transport and area.
We recommend. Nice weekend at London. (last one in the eighties for me..., will try to come again sooner, worth of it).

The condition of the apartment were much less than I expected. You are informed before going that you cannot use the intercom but you need to call the guy to get the keys. When he let you come to the apartment he asks you to remove your shoes and to leave them in the entrance room, which would be acceptable but the moquet also in the room is quite dirty, lucky me that I had the slippers.
You come in the room which is very big and you look around and you see that the velvet curtain is orange on the down part and on the top is black because very dirty. On the bed the duvet cover, as you see in the picture, is black and gray also in a kind of velvet so you ask yourself if it was washed. I went to buy sheets and pillow covers because I had to sleep there for 10 days. Then he shows you the bathroom and he tells you that you need to leave always the windows open because he needs air going down to the lower floor, in the reality is because the smell of it with closed windows would be unbearable. The windows moreover has not a curtain so when you have a shower the neighbors can see the show. When I arrived he did not gave me a towel. The day after I asked for that and he looked at me really surprised. He gave me 1 only for 10 days, so I had to buy also that. One evening he cooked something and when I arrived at home the smell was so strong that I had to open the windows and I discovered that actually the windows can be closed but not locked, so you are leaving your things in the room and as it is at the first floor, someone can come in buy the windows... attached to the building door there was also a nice message:"On 3rd of October there was a theft in the building, please take care to close all the windows". The owner invited me to use one time his kitchen but actually I didn´t want to see how he lives.By the way the bathroom was clean and he also landed me an italian hair dryer so you need the adapter...ah I was forgetting in the bathroom he gives at your disposal all kinds of soap or toothpaste left from the previous guest, available in french, german and english language. Only shampoo is missing. He also gives you several little bottles of water, pringles and wine. A light burned out and he changed it immediately. he also gave me dishes and cutlery. The apartment is 5 min walking from the metro and there is a great Turkish grill restaurant close to the metro, coming out on the right. Also a lot of take away and market like tesko and others are along the way from the apartment to the metro. Personally I would not go there again or suggested to any of my friend. I like to feel safe and confortable when I go somewhere and the price was not cheap from my point of view. Anyhow I survived staying as much as possible out of the room ;-) Now you know all and you can decide what to do. Sorry Mark but your description of the apartment is not realistic.

Very nice and interesting host! Nice house, big room... All conveniences in the bathroom, but no towels! Marc was so kind to lend us a couple! Can advice this adress for people who like privacy and... Nottinghill! Thanks for the interesting conversations, Mark, although we did not agree about some things in life:-)